Lona.
The whole town is to be illuminated, I hear.
Bernick.
Yes, I believe there is some such idea.
Lona.
All the clubs will turn out with their banners. Your name will shine in letters of fire. To-night it will be telegraphed to every corner of the country—“Surrounded by his happy family, Consul Bernick received the homage of his fellow citizens as one of the pillars of society.”
Bernick.
So it will; and the crowd in the street will shout and hurrah, and insist on my coming forward into the doorway there, and I shall have to bow and thank them.
Lona.
Have to——?